Bankruptcy court gets more and more weird. Today's scheduled hearing in SCO's bankruptcy was cancelled at the last minute. No one told the U.S. Trustee's Office, I gather, since our reporter showed up and so did that office's representative. Meanwhile, the order approving the sale of the patent was approved and signed by the judge.

They should just skip hearings. Why would the public need to know what is going on behind closed doors? Just sign SCO's proposed orders, and let's get this show on the road.

Yes. I'm kidding. There is a notice that a hearing was "cancelled/rescheduled." I have no clue. But if they mean there will be another hearing on this later, it makes no sense, because the order says that there was adequate notice of the motion, and everyone had ample opportunity to be heard, including the U.S. Trustee's Office, that the order is final and immediately effective and no one can argue against it now.

Update: We have the document about the hearing cancelled/rescheduled now, and it is about this hearing, and it simply says that the order was signed and no hearing was required. If you open it with a text editor, instead of a PDF viewer, you can see
it was probably created at a quarter to eleven local time:

By that time, our reporter was already en route. You can see the same thing in Adobe in Properties:
"Created: 04/20/2010 10:45:04 AM". I think that would mean, since the hearing was at 4 PM, that there was plenty of time to contact the U.S. Trustee's Office. For that matter, there was time to post it so the public didn't drive for 3 hours both ways.